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Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.
Jim Rogers
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Jim Rogers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.
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Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
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When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
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I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.
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You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.
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I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.
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If you want to be lucky, do your homework.
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I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.
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Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
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Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.
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Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
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Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.
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I cannot invest the way I want the world to be I have to invest the way the world is.
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I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.
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If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.
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Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.
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If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
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The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
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If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!
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I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.
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